Ep. 1194: Jerry Parker Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Michael Covel's Trend Following
Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Jerry Parker, the founder of Chesapeake Capital Corporation, a global investment manager headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, in 1988. He was an original TurtleTrader and was also the most successful TurtleTrader. His trading career started in 1983 when Richard Dennis hired and trained him.
The topic is Trend Following.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Trend following
- Turtle trading
- CTAs
- Hunting outliers
- How important is trading nowadays
- Dealing with the smartest people
- New ETF
Jump in!
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I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.
To start? I'd like to give you a great piece of advice you can use in your life and trading journey… cut your losses! You will find much more about that philosophy here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/trend/
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Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is trend following radio where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:10.9 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:21.2 | I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.4 | My guest today is Jerry Parker. |
| 0:35.5 | Jerry is one of the original turtle traders, trained by Richard |
| 0:40.1 | Dennis and Bill Eckhart back in the day. He has a 40-year track record in the trend following |
| 0:48.0 | world. That is quite an amazing run. Jerry's been on this podcast many times. He was episode 1,000, and he was |
| 0:55.9 | episode, many other episodes that I forget, but he's been on this podcast a handful of times. |
| 1:02.0 | Today, we cover all kinds of territory, all kinds of nuance, interesting nuggets. Jerry is |
| 1:07.4 | always a great conversation, and he is fast becoming one of the most popular |
| 1:12.7 | trend following personalities out there. |
| 1:15.2 | He's got a new podcast you can check out as well, and also a new ETF. |
| 1:22.2 | So stay tuned in this episode for more information on that. |
| 1:26.8 | Without any further delay from me, let's jump |
| 1:28.9 | right into Jerry Parker. |
| 1:40.2 | How's life? Fantastic. Join the Memorial Day weekend. |
| 1:45.9 | I'm nice up here. |
| 1:47.5 | I'm in New York today. |
| 1:48.7 | Back in Florida tomorrow night. |
| 1:50.7 | I got to commend you. |
| 1:51.4 | Maybe I said this the last time we talked, but I think you've ramped it up even more |
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